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Comment on Cat on a Hot Tin Roof – Guthrie Theater – Theater Review by Susan McNerney

Susan McNerney — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:42:00 +0000

Have a great time. Watch out for the monsters!

Comment on Cat on a Hot Tin Roof – Guthrie Theater – Theater Review by Jessica Bakken-Kleven

Jessica Bakken-Kleven — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:58:00 +0000

Hi Susan! Nice to read your review, Nick and I are going to go see it on Valentine’s day! Hope you are doing well! You have to post more pictures of your pets on here!
Talk to you soon!
~ Jess

Comment on Cavalia – Live Show Review by Pat

Pat — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 23:58:38 +0000

I have now seen the Cavalia show and it is indeed spectacular! I really enjoyed the review. I wanted to mention that the many different backdrops for the performances were works of art in themselves on a large scale. As a lover of both horses and art this show was much enjoyed!

Comment on Pondering the MFA by Susan

Susan — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 16:43:27 +0000

Yeah, I enjoy Neil Gaiman’s blog, but few others. I think an author blog is only interesting if the author is talking about something more than just writing (which is why I’ll always be putting up lots of pretty pictures).

Comment on Pondering the MFA by dhosek

dhosek — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 19:47:08 +0000

Re: Thought 2, while I’m not in an MFA program, never have been, and likely never will be, I came to a similar thought in blog-reading. I don’t really read published author blogs since they have little of use to me. I prefer to stick with editors and agents (and occasional dips into author blogs, usually those of people at roughly your stage in life).

Comment on Life for eBooks? by Susan

Susan — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 17:25:18 +0000

thanks for your comment, due to technical issues I didn’t see it there when you posted. I’m really enjoying the kindle at this point – the ship has officially sailed on traditional books in my view, and there is really no turning back.

Comment on Life for eBooks? by W-briggs Thompson

W-briggs Thompson — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 06:31:58 +0000

I resisted buying the Kindle 1 but I couldn’t resist any longer when the Kindle 2 came out. And I’m so glad I caved in. I love this device. I’m still discovering all the ins and outs of using it.
Magazine and newspaper articles come to my Kindle every day or every week, depending. I bought over 100 books that were free or 99 cents, all the classics that I love, Jane Austen, the Brontes, Elizabeth Gaskell, Herman Melville, Charles Dickens, Shakespeare, and on and on. I also bought a few new books, and some favorite books like A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, or The Glass Castle.
I read a lot and I will still use the library extensively as I can’t afford to buy all the books I want to read, but the Kindle is great for the books I do buy, and once I got it set up with lots of reading material, I might now buy 1 or 2 books a month, at $9.99, which is no hardship.
I can surf the internet, though I haven’t quite figured that all out yet, and I can put my own files on Kindle. I’m a writer and working on a book. I can put that on Kindle just to see how it reads.
I find the Kindle very comfortable in my hands, and easy to read. I sit in coffee shops reading it in the morning, and people sneak curious glances at it. I want to tell them, “It’s great, you should buy it.” I’ve had people come up and ask to see it. I’m glad to show it to them.
The $30 case that goes along with it makes it feel like a book and gives that added protection. The only drawback is that it doesn’t stay closed, so I need to find a rubber band or piece of velcro to put around it, that is the only flaw I have found.
The Kindle is really fun to use and I’m having a blast learning to navigate it and how to use all its features. I can bookmark pages (the corner of the page actually “folds down” to look like a real book), highlight and save passages or quotes, which I can then put on my computer and send to friends to share. I have no regrets, it’s everything I might have wished it would be.
ETA: I think some people don’t understand that the Kindle doesn’t have a backlight ON PURPOSE and I hope the engineers never change that. The e-reader is supposed to replicate the experience of reading a book, not a computer. A book doesn’t have a backlight either. It’s easier on the eyes not to have that light. I bought a $13 light that clips on (it’s advertised with it) and that’s great for lying down in bed or in darker places. But most of the time I have no trouble seeing the text in any light. It’s also easy to make the font larger whenever necessary, like when my eyes are tired. And the lack of backlight saves on the battery. I can leave it on sleep for days and hardly ever need to recharge the battery. I can’t say enough that I am so not disappointed in this product.

Comment on The War of my Childhood Has Ended by M. D. Vaden - Tree Care and Redwood Trekking

M. D. Vaden - Tree Care and Redwood Trekking — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 03:15:44 +0000

Pretty good sharing.
Actually the whole page is interesting. I never dropped in on any redwood wars. But stopping at Hawg Wild in Orick last month, I listened to two guys sharing old stories at the bar. One was there dismantling the last mill in Orick.
MDV / Oregon.

Comment on Writer Retreats by Brian Walker

Brian Walker — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 04:05:14 +0000

Hi Susan,
I am Brian Walker, Sylvia Walker’s (nee Toomath)son. Sylvia was the last of Richards 25 children. I have included the url of the Toomath Family website I posted. Love to hear from you some time.
…B

Comment on Babe the Blue Ox and Paul Bunyan by Susan Brainerd McNerney

Susan Brainerd McNerney — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:24:16 +0000

As both a Brainerd and a McNerney who has in fact visited Brainerd Minnesota I was blown away when I saw this site. Write on Susan!